Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070300040
Filing Date: June 21, 2006
Inventors: Patrick J. Meaney, Michael Fee, Christopher M. Carney
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Current U.S. Classification: 712, 712/001000, 710, 710/240000
View Prior Art for Claim 00001
A method of resource arbitration for multiple pipelines with a shared resource of a computer system comprising the steps of:
arbitrating for priority within a pipeline of the multiple pipelines;
determining if a shared resource of the computer system is needed by a pipeline operation; and
rejecting the said pipeline operation if there is a conflict within the pipeline with the said shared resource of the computer system.
Patent/Application # Method and apparatus for a mul
Description
A multiple request toggling (MRT) arbitration system for prioritizing requests to a set of shared resources by multiple requestors, especially requests by multiple processors to shared resources in a multiprocessor system.
